Cecilia Morgan, Esq. has gained extensive experience in health care/insurance matters over the last 38 years serving as an attorney, a mediator, and an arbitrator. She completed the American Health Lawyers Association Peer Review Officer Training in July, 2008. From the time she started practicing law in 1977, she has always had medical professionals as clients and, as such, has a working knowledge of the health care industry, practices, language, and general health laws.

She has mediated, arbitrated, or facilitated over 3,000 cases in many different areas of law in Texas and 31 other states since 1991. She regularly re-mediates litigation cases from state and federal courts.

Representative Mediations

Co-mediated dispute between disgruntled shareholder/co-developer of medical device and the company after successful IPO

Mediated a case between the parents of a child undergoing experimental medical treatments and the teaching hospital, the ERISA claims administrator, and the insurance company over a six-figure plus bill

Mediated case where alleged failure by hospital to perform due diligence when hospital was being acquired by large HMO resulted in death of husband/father

Mediated claim against hospital and nursing staff for failure to remove one of seventy surgical sponges causing infection to surgical site in Medicare patient

Arbitrated a case between a hospital, an HMO, and a large multi-doctor orthopedic practice under the Texas speedy claims payment provisions

Arbitrated a nurse’s wrongful termination claim against a major hospital; the nurse claimed national origin discrimination and the hospital claimed the nurse allegedly violated patient rights of confidentiality and care

Arbitrated the business divorce of a gynecological medical practice with issues involving clean and unclean claims, past due bills, insurance coverage, third-party payers and vendors

Arbitrated dispute between hospital and large multi-practice physician group over reasonable and necessary charges reported to HMO

Arbitrated dispute between doctor acting as medical director of a satellite outpatient facility with an exclusive four year contract and major hospital group after takeover of the hospital by new investor

Dalkon Shield Arbitrations. In 1996-1997, Ms. Morgan arbitrated over 125 cases between the Dalkon Shield Claimants Trust and individual claimants as part of the A. H. Robins Plan of Reorganization ADR plan in bankruptcy. She conducted hearings in New York, Virginia, Indiana, Louisiana, and Texas. These were high and low arbitrations with a maximum award of $20,000 per claimant and a low of zero. This ADR program required the issuance of reasoned written opinions within 20 days of the live evidentiary hearings and review of volumes of the claimants’ medical records.

Supplementary Matters

Breast Implant Settlement Facilitation. In 1995, Ms. Morgan was appointed as one of thirty individuals from across the country to present a settlement offer from several product manufacturers to claimants. The presentation, which she designed and conducted in Dallas, was subsequently used as the prototype for presentations across the country. Recognizing the highly sensitive and confidential nature of the settlement information, she was designated to deal with the news media present. After over forty presentations, she acted as the "trouble shooter" and answered questions that arose from claimants after the fact.

A former commercial litigator, Ms. Morgan has tried and argued cases from the trial courts to the Texas Supreme Court, the 5th Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court

Negotiation, mediation, and advanced mediation courses, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University School of Law, 1991-2010

Mediation and negotiation courses, Harvard Law School, 1992

Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Introduction to International Arbitration, 2012

College of the State Bar of Texas

J.D., Texas Tech University School of Law

Phi Delta Phi

National Order of Barristers

B.A., (Mass Communications), Abilene Christian University

Extensive travel with two trips around the world including one in 2013 covering ten countries in 73 days; has traveled five continents and is culturally sensitive to many different customs and religions

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